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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation to remember Pablo Escobar. He was

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Speaker 1: a drug kingpin in the nineteen eighties. Is dead now.

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Speaker 2: Shot in the nineties, didn't he?

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Speaker 1: Did he? It's painful post to be shot.

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Speaker 2: Shot in the nineties. All the noughts.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me in the nords.

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Speaker 2: For God's sake.

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Speaker 3: Well, he when he was a drug baron, thought it'd

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Speaker 3: be amusing to bring a small number of hippos to

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Speaker 3: Colombia in the late eighties, and just a small number.

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Speaker 2: But after his say small, how many I think he.

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Speaker 3: Has started with maybe three or four. I'm making that up.

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Speaker 3: Actually I don't know. But after his death in nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety three, the so called cocaine hippos wandered free. Imagine

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Speaker 3: that it's like ibises, but they're hippos and have become

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Speaker 3: environmental disasters and they've been breeding, so they're just wandering

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Speaker 3: casually through Colombia. So they spread from his estate into

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Speaker 3: nearby rivers where they have flourished. There are no natural

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Speaker 3: predators in Colombia. They've been declared an invasive species, and

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Speaker 3: they upset the ecosystem because they're so big. They obviously

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Speaker 3: their feces are enormous. And they change the composition.

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Speaker 1: Of the readers. Are the readers the rivers.

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Speaker 3: And this impacts the habitat of the local manatees and

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Speaker 3: the capybaras.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen these?

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Speaker 3: They're like they're cute, but they're like big rats without

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Speaker 3: tails and they're cute.

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Speaker 2: That sounds dreadful.

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Speaker 3: It looks like, actually rhyme those like a beaver. How

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Speaker 3: would you describe that? Like a bea?

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Speaker 2: It's like, it's like a big beaver.

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Speaker 3: When I was in Tokyo that I saw it. You know,

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Speaker 3: they've got cat cafes. I saw a Kappi bara cafere

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Speaker 3: you go in. It was actually very depressing because they

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Speaker 3: had these these wild animals in like in a in

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Speaker 3: a bath area that was tiled.

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Speaker 1: And you could sit next them and feed them. It

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Speaker 1: was depressing.

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Speaker 3: The hippos and now you cane hippos are quite prolific breeders,

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Speaker 3: aren't they. Well, let me tell you what the numbers

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Speaker 3: have gone to. So he arrived with a very small

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Speaker 3: number in the eighties. They now estimate there's one hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty nine of them, especially around the Magdalena River basin,

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Speaker 3: and if no measures are taken, it could be one

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Speaker 3: thousand by twenty thirty five. So the Environment Minister has

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Speaker 3: brought in some well, they've decided that they need to

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Speaker 3: take some measures. What they will do is that they've

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Speaker 3: contacted authorities in Mexico, India and the Philippines hoping to

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Speaker 3: send sixty of their hippos to India.

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Speaker 1: Imagine sitting next to that on your flight. Don't put

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Speaker 1: your seat back at the last resort. They're looking at euthanasia.

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Speaker 1: That'd be dreadful.

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Speaker 2: How do you kill a hippo?

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Speaker 3: They're masses and also they are the most dangerous animals

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Speaker 3: in Africa. Done but they kill people and they have

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Speaker 3: incredible land speed.

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Speaker 1: What about this thought, Brendan, And I'd like your opinion

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Speaker 1: on this.

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Speaker 3: The first stage of this plan is going to be

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Speaker 3: surgical sterilization of forty hippos a year. That's going to

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Speaker 3: begin next week. You've been surgical sterilized. Would you recommend this?

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Speaker 3: What advice would you give the hippos?

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Speaker 2: General anesthetic? Do that you I'm getting invasectomy and the

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Speaker 2: woman in your life you didn't need it. I had

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Speaker 2: a baby.

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Speaker 1: You don't need anesthetic.

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Speaker 2: No, you just need a local anesthetic.

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Speaker 3: But you're you're saying no, go the floor the general. Hey, hippos,

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Speaker 3: if you're listening, and maybe you know, maybe we could

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Speaker 3: have an adopted hippos scheme.

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Speaker 2: Here, I'll get one for your backyard.

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Speaker 1: I'd love it.

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Speaker 2: I would love it because your bay, quite frankly, is

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Speaker 2: like Walt Disneyland.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got a giant fiberglass zebra that my uncle made.

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Speaker 3: I haven't just gone out and said I want to

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Speaker 3: buy that. Well, my uncle made it. It's it's life size,

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Speaker 3: it's made of fiberglass. He made it on my Auntie painted.

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Speaker 2: It's like going on jungle cruise through your vacuum. And

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Speaker 2: now we're going past the manatee.

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Speaker 1: And straight into the gift shop and there's the old chrome.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, a waterhog? Is that where you were going?

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Speaker 1: Did I interrupt you saying water buffalo?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, my mistake, Brendan. I jumped in too soon. Time

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Speaker 3: to shave my chin.